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	<h1 style="text-align:center;">Unemployment</h1>

	Fixing unemployment is easy: We need merely look at corporations' motivations for moving labor and manufacturing offshore, and eliminate those motivations. As we all know, corporations are motivated to move labor and manufacturing offshore
	because it's significantly cheaper. China, Indonesia, and India, for example, have people willing and able to work for only cents per hour. How could we ever hope to compete with that?  Simple: Tax the hell out of Imports and Offshoring. <br /><br />

	America has total gross imports of around $1,903,000,000,000. If we tax that 20% at the point of import, we have $380,600,000,000 in new revenue, and we have significantly reduced corporations' desire to import goods. This simple measure alone
	may be enough to move manufacturing back into the United States; and if it doesn't, I propose we raise it by 5% per year until it does. With each new factory comes thousands of new American jobs. America has a GNP of <a href="http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&met_y=ny_gnp_mktp_pp_cd&idim=country:USA&dl=en&hl=en&q=us+gnp#ctype=l&strail=false&nselm=h&met_y=ny_gnp_mktp_pp_cd&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&rdim=country&idim=country:USA&ifdim=country&hl=en&dl=en">$14 Trillion</a>.
	At an <a href="http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm">unemployment rate</a> of 9.1%, the math indicates we must have approximately 152,747,252 total able-bodied workers. <br /><br />
		
	According to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offshoring">these</a> <a href="http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2004/05/Myths-and-Realities-The-False-Crisis-of-Outsourcing">two</a> sources, offshoring costs about 0.71% of the total jobs
	in the American workforce. If you compare that to our <a href="http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=z1ebjpgk2654c1_&met_y=unemployment_rate&tdim=true&fdim_y=seasonality:S&dl=en&hl=en&q=current+unemployment+rate#ctype=l&strail=false&nselm=h&met_y=unemployment_rate&fdim_y=seasonality:S&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&rdim=state&ifdim=state&tdim=true&hl=en&dl=en">current unemployment rate</a>
	of 9%, which indicates <a href="http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=z1ebjpgk2654c1_&met_y=unemployment_rate&tdim=true&fdim_y=seasonality:S&dl=en&hl=en&q=current+unemployment+rate#ctype=l&strail=false&nselm=h&met_y=unemployed&fdim_y=seasonality:S&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&rdim=state&ifdim=state&tdim=true&hl=en&dl=en">14 million</a>
	unemployed individuals, this alone would reduce unemployment by nearly one-tenth. <br /><br />

	Now, armed with this information, we can calculate that we have (152,747,252 * (100 - 9.1 = 90.9))% = 138,847,252 employed workers. The average American worker generates (14T / 138847252 = $100,830) total production toward GNP. Therefore, if we
	were able to replace imports completely, our GNP could increase by the total import amount. $1.903T / $100830 = 18,873,351 potential new American jobs. That gives us about 19 million possible jobs to help 14 million people who need jobs. <br /><br />

	Therefore, we need only reduce total imports by 14 million peoples' worth, or (14000000 * $100830 = $1,411,620,000,000). Total imports divided into reduced imports gives us the total needed reduction; $1.411T / $1.903T = 74%. Therefore, we simply
	need to find the import taxation rate that causes manufacturers to reduce imports by 74%. So we merely start at 20% import tax rate and increase until we reach that number, and we'll have zero involuntary unemployment.<br /><br />

	In this plan, we reduce involuntary unemployment to zero. We also add a new revenue stream to offset the need for taxes, which I would apply directly toward paying off the National Debt. As time progresses, more and more goods would be manufactured
	within the United States, reducing unemployment and increasing GNP along the way. Creating domestic jobs is the end result; the direct revenue is merely a bonus.

	America's GNP <a href="http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&met_y=ny_gnp_mktp_pp_cd&idim=country:USA&dl=en&hl=en&q=us+gnp#ctype=l&strail=false&nselm=h&met_y=ny_gnp_mktp_pp_cd&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&rdim=country&idim=country:USA&ifdim=country&hl=en&dl=en">dropped</a> 
	between 2008 and 2011, <i>for the first time in <b>recorded history</b></i>. America needs to build things again.
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